Metamorphosis

Life is a metamorphosis... Everything must be flowing, moving, changing to be interesting. Now that I have definitely retired from corporate life, it doesn't mean that I have retired from life. In fact life is just beginning and has metamorphosed into something else, into something I still have to discover, slowly, one day at a time. There is no need to rush, I must savor every moment. pausing and smelling the roses so to speak. It is time to find a game changer to keep one energized and motivated. It doesn't have to be profound, doesn't have to be life changing, could be anything simple, inane, something that when I wake up in the morning, would give me reason to spring out of bed. Definitely something that would be stress free. I got a gift, a ref magnet which says, retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living! Couldn't say it more succinctly than that! This is time to give back, time to free oneself from anger, time to forgive, time to pick up on lost relationships and time to get closer to the Maker. Time to read the Bible. The search is on.

AWESOME 60!!!!!!

Somebody said when you are 60 years old you can only be wealthy if you have three things:

• First is food on the table for three meals and a house to live in ----- I have food on the table for six meals! and a house to live, an inevitably almost empty nest,  with the kids all grown (no complaints though)
• Second is good health ---- except for the usual aches and pains that go with degeneration, all is well
• Third and most important of them all is that you can see that your children are doing well -----can't complain in this department either, my daughter is a VP at 32  and my son, 2 years after college is paving his way towards a great career also in finance. And a loving son- in- law and cute apo to boot.

Ergo, I am wealthy many times over. A billionaire!!!!

So many things to look forward to at 60 and retirement: 

• sleeping and waking up when I feel like it ( thank you Phillip stein )
• eating only healthy, natural food most of the time
• doing bikram yoga, pilates, and Argentine tango on a regular basis
• bonding with chikitita
• travelling solo or with company at a comfortable pace and savoring every place like a local
• freedom to do whatever and where ever the mood takes me
• be still...relax...hakuna matata .... 
• "allow yourself to get bored" ( as Richard Carlson said in his book Don't Sweat the Small stuff)
• reading uninterrupted ( now I am into book 2 of the millennium trilogy and can't put it down)
• finding and doing what I am passionate about ( always a work in progress,life is dynamic). at the moment it's blogging thus I look forward to the creative writing seminar of Tweetums Gonzales

Life is awesome indeed. Grateful Lord.